COACHING TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Abstract

The article raises the topical problem of innovative activity of pedagogical higher education institutions. The authors take the position that in the context of changing the role of the teacher in the training of pedagogical specialists of the new generation is a popular and modern solution. One of the ways to solve the problem is to introduce into the cycle of general training of applicants for the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education disciplines that will contribute to the formation of students’ ability to solve complex professional problems, quality of teaching and learning, support, motivation, psychological and pedagogical support, their personal and professional development.The purpose of the article is to specify the content of the discipline “Coaching Technologies in Education” for H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.The authors of the article present the experience of implementation and content of the selective discipline “Coaching Technologies in Education” for applicants for the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education. The list of general and professional competencies that are formed in future teachers during the study of the discipline is given, the program results are specified. Target and content aspects of the elective course are presented through the prism of standardized requirements for general secondary education teachers.Methods of teaching are revealed, including partial search, performance of practical exercises, conversation, discussion, work with the basic and auxiliary literature, information sources, the story, the decision of cases, practical exercises, writing of the essay, business game, drawing up mental maps, storytelling, case study method, World Cafe method.Of particular value is the presented content of the elective course, which consists of two modules “Philosophy, principles and types of coaching”, “Coaching in education”. The thematic plan and forms of lectures and seminars are presented. The peculiarities of conducting classes in the form of coaching sessions are specified.Prospects for further scientific research are to develop practical and methodological complexes for the discipline.